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National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria
The National Palace of Culture in central Sofia is a spectacular example of the scope and ambition of architectural design under the Communist government in Bulgaria. Lyudmila Zhivkova, daughter of...
View ArticleWatch a Mini Volcano Simulator Produce an Electrical Storm
Volcanic eruptions can result in a series of amazing and violent natural phenomena. They can spew streams of lava, generate cloud vortexes, and blanket the sky in thick black ash. And sometimes, when...
View ArticleOver 400 Vintage Boomboxes Are Up For Sale
On the hunt for a massive boombox collection? Of course you are! Read more: https://t.co/rFUkUOFlynpic.twitter.com/YyWisqDwHE— Stoney Roads (@StoneyRoads) July 27, 2016What is believed to be one of the...
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Found: Really Stinky 340-Year-Old Cheese From a Shipwreck
Possible shipwreck cheese. (Photo: Lars Einarsson/Kalmar County Museum)Since the shipwreck of the Swedish royal ship Kronan was discovered in 1980, researchers have found thousands of items that sank...
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The World's Most Lightning-Prone Place Has the World's First Lightning Forecasts
Lightning over Lake Maracaibo. (Photo: Thechemicalengineer/CC BY-SA 3.0)For centuries, the lightning that lit up the skies above Lake Maracaibo, night after night, was a mystery. The Beacon of...
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The Lost Mushroom Masterpiece Unearthed in a Dusty Drawer
An illustration of Polyporus beatiei, from Mary Banning's The Fungi of Maryland. (Photo: vintageprintable/Public Domain)To her neighbors in 19th century Baltimore, the mycologist Mary Banning was a...
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Sunshine Laundromat in Brooklyn, New York
Walking past Sunshine Laundromat, one might assume that unless they had a load of dirty laundry to do there would be no reason to wander inside. They would be mistaken.As you pass a few classic pinball...
View ArticleTaxi Drivers In Ghana Skip Work To Fill In Potholes
Every day, hundreds of taxi drivers in Hohoe, Ghana drive commuters to workplaces, weekly markets, and wherever else they need to go. Over the past few months, though, a growing plague of potholes has...
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Becknell Cemetery in Clarksville, Texas
Captain William Becknell was the quintessential frontiersman and a famous trail-blazer, though he didn't attract quite as much Hollywood attention as his contemporaries like Davy Crocket and Daniel...
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The Public Shaming of England’s First Umbrella User
Jonas Hanway walking into the rain, with—controversially—an umbrella. (Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images)In the early 1750s, an Englishman by the name of Jonas Hanway, lately returned from a trip to France,...
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Bishop Rock in Isles of Scilly, England
Twenty-eight miles off the coast of southwestern England lies an archipelago of islands called the Isles of Scilly, the southernmost point of the United Kingdom and the westernmost point of England....
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Shipka Memorial Church in Shipka, Bulgaria
Tucked away in a tiny town in the slopes of Bulgaria's Balkan mountain range, hidden within a thick grove of trees, is the Shipka Memorial Church. Flitting in and out between curtains of leaves are the...
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The Largo in Sofia, Bulgaria
Three socialist-built buildings lie at Sofia's city center, and while they still house most of Bulgaria's government offices, the vestiges of its communist era have largely been stripped away.Following...
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Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria
The St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, located at the heart of Bulgaria's capital city of Sofia, comprises a little bit of everywhere. The marble came from Munich, the metal was sourced Berlin and...
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We're Getting Closer to Knowing Why Bees Are Dying Off Worldwide
(Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim/GNU 1.2)The world bee population has been in decline for years now, and scientists have been generally puzzled over the reasons why. Insects, including bees, are essential...
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Pokémon Go Players Are Rescuing Lots Of Real Wildlife
Real and fake bats, together at last. (Photo: Angell Williams/altered by Cara Giaimo/CC BY 2.0)Late Monday evening, Olivia Case of Spencer, New York drove to her local laundromat with her iPhone and...
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The Experimental Nuclear Reactor Secretly Built Under the University of Chicago
An illustration of the first critical nuclear reaction. (Photo: Gary Sheehan/Public Domain)On December 2, 1942, the world's first nuclear reactor was fired up in a subterranean squash court. But...
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The Leather Work in Bangkok, Thailand
As thousands of shoppers walk past each day, The Leather Work in Bangkok’s largest mall, CentralWorld, entices passers-by with what appears to be dozens of high-end leather products. Eager shoppers...
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Bexell's Talking Stones in Varberg S, Sweden
For decades, hundreds of engraved stones covered in moss were lying around in this forest just waiting to be discovered.They were engraved in the late 1800s by Alfred Bexell, a landowner and member of...
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Women's Museum of California in San Diego, California
When Mary Maschal was born in 1924, women had been able to vote for only four years. It was an entirely different era for women’s rights, one that Maschal would spend her later years chronicling,...
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